Plasma/Active/Devices

This page contains experiences and setup tips for target devices for Plasma Active Tablet. If you are running Plasma Tablet on a device not listed here, or if you would like to share setup tips, please add this information. We would especially appreciate instructions for running Plasma Active on devices such as the N900, and panda/beagle board.

Balsam Professional 12.1

MeeGo

This device is also used by MeeGo as demo hardware for their discontinued Netbook UX.

openSUSE 11.4

openSUSE 11.4 runs fine on this hardware, including the touchscreen, suspend, etc. Multitouch does not work, unknown why, it works on MeeGo.

Fujitsu Stylistic Q550

Key specs:

10' tablet at 1280x800

Intel Oak Trail platform

Intel Atom Z670 processor

GMA600 video card

Balsam Professional / openSUSE 12.1

The Balsam 12.1 LiveCD runs correctly, except for the VGA mode. It starts in 1024x768x16 mode instead of 1280x800x32. You can get the colour depth of 32 by passing the vga=ask option to the kernel and then selecting 1024x768x32. Unfortunately, the current graphics driver psb_gfx version does not support the native resolution.

The graphics driver doesn't provide any acceleration, therefore the overall performance is rather poor. It should improve if the effects are disabled.

HP Slate 500

Key specs:

Display: 8.9' tablet at 1024x600

Chipset: Intel System Controller Hub (SCH) US15W

CPU: Intel Atom Z540

RAM: 2GB

Storage: 32/64 GB SSD

Meego 1.2

The System needs a custom Kernel with support for brcmsmac and hid_ntrig to get WIFI and Touchscreen working .The brcm firmware has to be placed in /lib/firmware which you can get form here linux-firmware.git if it is not installed on your system.

EMGD driver needs patches from the yocto project to compile on 3.x kernels, you can get patches from here yocto-git. Provides the native resolution of 1024x600 with correct xorg configuration along with OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 1.0 support.